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Escaped
- verb -
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
- fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
- having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
- issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
Escapee
- noun - someone who escapes
Escapes
- noun -
- a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
- fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
- flee; take to one'
Escarps
- noun - a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
Eschara
- - A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
Eschars
- noun - a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin
Escheat
- noun - a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs
- the property that reverts to the state
Eschews
- verb - avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
Escolar
- noun - large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes